Sex Lives of Our Parents will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on Broadway at 76th Street. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased by calling the Second Stage Theatre Box Office at 212-246-4422 or online at www.2ST.com.

Virginia is getting married. As her wedding day approaches, unwanted ghosts of her mother's past appear, unearthing a shocking past she never knew - nor wanted to. A provocative comic nightmare about the mysterious hollows between parents and children and things that may be better left unsaid.

Created as a program to help develop and provide exposure for the voices of a new generation of theatre artists the Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series (Christopher Burney, Associate Artistic Director and Curator), the series seeks to develop the skills of emerging playwrights, to provide early-career artists with the support of a major artistic institution, and to create new plays for the American Theatre. Each show has a limited rehearsal period, as well as a streamlined budget.

The Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series will also present the world premiere of Anna Kerrigan's The Talls, directed by Carolyn Cantor, later this summer. The Talls will be performed August 1 - August 27, with an official opening scheduled for August 15.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Michael Mitnick is a playwright and songwriter. His plays and musicals have been developed around the country at theaters including Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, The McCarter, The Denver Center Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, The Lark, Studio 42, Washington Ensemble Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. He has an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn.

Lisa Emery (Charlotte) has just returned from the Sundance Theater Lab in Banff where she worked on new plays by Janine Nabers and Jennifer Haley. Broadway credits include The Women, Present Laughter, The Smell Of The Kill, Jackie, Rumors and Burn This. Off-Broadway: A Kind of Alaska and Gabriel at Atlantic Theater Co., Distracted (Lortel nomination) at Roundabout, Mouth to Mouth, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail's Party (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), What The Butler Saw and Curtains (ensemble Obie) all at The New Group, Iron (Obie Award, Lortel nomination) at MTC Lucy at EST, The Maddening Truth at Keen Co., Dinner With Friends, Far East at LCT, The Monogamist and Marvin's Room (Drama Desk nomination) at Playwright's Horizons, Talley and Sons and Dalton's Back at Circle Rep Co. Film: Cold Souls, The Night Listener, People I Know, Roger Dodger, A Map Of The World, Unfaithful. Television: "Louie," "Law & Order" (incl. SVU and CI), "The Fringe," "Damages," "Sex and the City," "Ed," " Third Watch," "Far East" and "The Women" on PBS.

Ben Rappaport (Jeff/Rodney) stars in the new NBC comedy "Outsourced" as Todd Dempsy. He is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School's Drama Division where he received the Drama Division's highest honor: the Michel and Suria Saint-Denis Prize. Rappaport starred in the off-Broadway production of The Gingerbread House (stageFARM at Rattlestick). His regional credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Paradise Now (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Twelfth Night (The Actor Factory) and Best of Shakespearean Romance (New Jersey Symphony Orchestra). Rappaport has also worked with Red Bull Theater, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, The Actors Studio and New Dramatists. His credits at Juilliard include: Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale, conducted by James Conlon (Narrator), The Three Sisters (Andrey), Fifth of July (Weston Hurley), and Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch).

Last season's series featured the New York premiere of Michael Golamco's Year Zero, directed by Will Frears and the New York premiere production of Leslye Headland's critically acclaimed hit comedy Bachelorette, directed by Trip Cullman.